Nowadays, people's acceptance of online games is gradually increasing, and it is common to upgrade and play equipment, but have you ever heard that you can still invest in playing games and playing equipment?Recently, the People's Court of Qingliu County, Fujian Province tried such a fraud case, and the defendant Lai falsely claimed that investing in upgrading game equipment could obtain high returns, and was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison and fined 100,000 yuan.
From March 2020 to January 2021, Lai repeatedly deceived Wang, Ma and others into investing or borrowing money on the grounds that investing in an online game to buy and sell materials, equipment, and game trumpets could obtain high returns. After that, Lai returned part of the obtained funds to the investors in the form of principal repayment and dividends, so that they could continue to increase the investment amount, and the other part was used for personal daily consumption, and was eventually unable to repay. During this period, Lai also defrauded Chen of a diamond ring on the pretext of helping with a loan. After verification, Lai's fraud amount was as high as 1374090 yuan.
On April 7, 2021, the defendant Lai was arrested by the police of the Qingliu County Public Security Bureau, and later truthfully confessed his crime. After the case, Lai withdrew 30,000 yuan of stolen money from Ma.
After trial, the Qingliu People's Court found that the defendant Lai, for the purpose of illegal possession, fabricated facts and defrauded others of property totaling 1374090 yuan, the amount of which was particularly huge, and his conduct constituted the crime of fraud, and the crime charged by the public prosecution was established. Based on the circumstances of defendant Lai's confession, admitting guilt and accepting punishment, and withdrawing part of the unlawful gains, the court made the above judgment in accordance with law.
Qingliu Court hereby reminds the general public to earnestly raise their awareness of risk prevention, and in case of investments that claim "high dividends" and "high returns", they must remain vigilant, beware of the traps behind the word "high", and comprehensively study their investment projects, credit scores, repayment ability, work conditions, etc., and then decide whether to invest or not to avoid being deceived.